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Newsletter - 10 May 2019

10 May 2019

Dear Parents and Carers,

I hope you have all enjoyed our recent shorter weeks and maybe some additional family time together. Now that we are back into the summer term, we have been talking as a staff about the importance of insisting on good behaviour. I am sure you will agree that this comes down to one word-respect; respect for each other, for our property and for our school rules. This afternoon I led a whole school assembly about the importance of demonstrating respect, for example by arriving at school on time, saying please and thank you or holding the door open for someone.

We know that we have high expectations (‘Be your Best’) but we want to be proud of our children’s behaviour and we know you will support us at home. More importantly, we want to help children become polite, well-mannered adults who show respect for others and stand out for all the right reasons. Linking with our theme of ‘Be Your Best’ I would like to wish all our Y6 children well with their SATs tests next week. They have all worked so hard in preparation and should certainly be rewarded for their effort and commitment to improve.

Have a lovely weekend

Rachel Colbourn

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10 May 2019

Tour de Yorkshire Superstars!

A massive thanks to everyone that joined in with the Bramhope Tour de Yorkshire Land Art.

Storyteller in KS1

We had a lovely time listening to Sean tell us stories on Tuesday, It was so much fun and he told 23 stories over the day!!! We even got to tell him some of our jokes and he thought we were funny and had a wonderful day with us.

Here are some quotes from 1H...

"The stories were exciting and fun!" Izzy

"I liked the suitcase because I didn't know what was going to come out of it next. It was exciting!" Ben D

"I liked the monkey trouble story" Rhys

"I thought the pig was really funny in the Harriet's magic hair story" George

"I enjoyed making up a story. We made one up about a dog!" Layla

New House Water Bottles

We are pleased to introduce our new House Water bottles just in time for the warm(?!) summer weather.

Is your water bottle past it's best? New bottles can be purchased from the school office admin team for £1.50 and feature the school logo and house crest!

All bottles are made in the UK from LDPE and any old bottles can be recycled in your normal recycling bin!

New Books

1H had an exciting delivery this week! We received around 30 books that were purchased using the money raised for our Device Free Challenge! We have books about mermaids, fairies, ocean creatures, cars, Spiderman and much more! We are looking forward to enjoying these wonderful books together A huge well done and thank you to everyone who was sponsored for this challenge!

Reading with Honey

Well done to our Honey readers this week in Lower School - Grace, Liliana, Ben G, Eaden, Fatima and Alexa.

Honey will be back in school on Tuesday 21 May to read with children in Upper School.

Class 1H Trip to Swillington Organic Farm

Farmer Jo gave us a wonderful tour of the farm telling us about the different animals and answering our questions! We fed sheep, gave a bottle to a lamb, stroked a chicken and a week old duckling, watched some cheeky piglets, collected eggs and saw a week old calf.

After a cosy lunch on the coach we sat on hay bales in the cow barn and sketched the Mummy cows with their new calves. Next we tried to count all of the chickens that were running around!

Despite the drizzle we had a wonderful trip and loved all of the animals that we saw!

1H have been in the garden...

This week we have been continuing with our Growing Bramhope project.

1H were out in the garden planting our spring onion seedlings and sowing salad leaves. We are looking forward to our cooking session!

Thanks to Mrs Hallam who came to help with our planting session on Friday.

KS2 Geography fieldwork – A Walk around the Local Area

As we are all aware, the village of Bramhope will be undergoing significant change with the new housing development starting to get underway. This provides the children with the perfect opportunity to experience how places and space changes over time, right on their doorstep. All classes in KS2 undertook a walk through the village down to the area where the development is taking place, conducting fieldwork along the way. They made observations about the features which make Bramhope a special place to live and considered the impact of additional traffic on Leeds Road. Thank you to all volunteers who gave their time in assisting the classes, enabling us to take the children off site – learning outside of the classroom is an important aspect to the teaching of geography at our school.

Headlice

We have had a number of cases of Headlice reported in both KS1 and KS2. Please see the NHS webite for advice and guidance on how to spot and treat Headlice.

Helicopter Ride over Bramhope...do you have the winning ticket?

The raffle tickets were drawn by Rev Tom Lusty at Friday's Tour de Yorkshire event and the top prize of a helicopter ride over Bramhope is still to be claimed. The winning yellow raffle ticket is number 69 - if you still have your ticket, please bring it in to the School office.